The value of good health

Good health is good for our families and good for our pocketbooks. It makes Maine a place where businesses want to be and where young people want to stay. Good health changes everything – healthy kids are ready to learn, workers are more productive, seniors can stay in their homes, and employers spend less on insurance coverage.

We can do better

This country’s best public health systems are modern and nimble, with dynamic leadership and equitably-distributed resources so all families and communities can stay healthy and be prepared for health risks, epidemics, and emergencies.

Five Steps to building a modern, responsive, and cost-saving system of public health and disease prevention for families and businesses across the state:

  1. Promote a vision for health and productivity

    Provide bold leadership, tenacious promotion, and public education to attract new businesses, strengthen Maine’s workforce, and give kids a hopeful future.

  2. Work smarter and connect the dots

    Improve the skills, coordination, and integration among public health, emergency management, public safety, and health systems at every level of jurisdiction.

  3. Support local solutions

    Invigorate Maine’s community health infrastructure and public-private partnerships.

  4. Create fair and equal opportunities for success

    Address differences in Maine’s rural, veteran, tribal, and aging communities’ access to high quality preventive care and health information.

  5. Take the politics out of prevention

    Retool how we set public health priorities and use Maine’s tobacco settlement prevention funds.

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